At the Press Conference, held on March 14th in Paris, Archos founder and CEO Henri Crohas revealed some details about their projects for the upcoming year.

Archos and Arnova lines of products

In 2012, we should have three ranges of products. Arnova and white lable devices starting from 50EUR(capacitive ones from 70EUR), Archos elements(more about them later) with Google certification and finally, Archos G10 xs range.

Archos G10 xs (eXtremely Slim) ultra thin tablets with keyboard dock

During the conference, Crohas explained some details on how tablet are usually built following the model of Apple Ipad, with an machined aluminium body where a high quality glass is applied. Archos on the other hand has developed their own technology over the past 3 years. The tablet structure is made by highly resistant stainless steel embedded in a plastic enclosure. An extremely thin (about 1/10 mm) metal frame surrounds the screen as you can see on the following pictures.

This smart build technology should help Archos to build, with the Archos Gen10xs, the thinnest tablets in the world, down to 7.6 mm thick (20 % less than the 9.4 mm on latest Apple Ipad)…